SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer at Search Engine Journal Gary Illyes, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, championed HTTPS as a ranking signal back August 2014 — today he celebrated a ...

Google is working on adding an HTTPS-Only Mode to the Chrome web browser to protect users' web traffic from eavesdropping by upgrading all connections to HTTPS. This new feature is now being tested in ...

Google is bringing a subtle yet controversial change to its Chrome web browser. Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users ...

Google's recent move to enable DNS over HTTPS in Chrome has been a controversial one. Intended to improve user privacy, it's been met with opposition from some ISPs and network security experts. For a ...

Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. This feature is called ...

Google has implemented HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) on the google.com domain to prevent users from navigating to its site using the insecure HTTP. HSTS allows website operators to ensure ...